Actually, to be fair, you should almost never smell gas, even in a
British car.
If you do, there's a leak at a junction somewhere, the carbs are
overflowing, or the tank is leaking. All fixable.
Pre 60's LBCs you'll smell gas when filling up... due to tank vent pipes.
On 7/29/10, Greg Lemon <glemon@neb.rr.com> wrote:
> I am curious as to at what point in the evening these various women on dates
> inform you of their healey induced headaches :)
>
> Actually I too have experienced the fairer sex being much more sensitive to
> car smells, a while back a car freind of mine and I took the wives out
> in his Sunbeam Imp, I though it was pretty cool alll four of us driving
> around (and fitting pretty well in this car about the size of a mini) in
> this spiffy
> old subcompact, but before long the comment from the back seat was it
> "smells like gas". Whenever I come in for a drive from whatever old british
> roadster
> I have running at the moment I "smell like gas". I personally find the mild
> smell of exhaust, hot oil, gas and the general musty smell of an old british
> roadster to
> be a mild and pleasant intoxicant, but apparently most women don't agree.
>
> That being said the wife is pretty tolerant of the fixation I have with
> these old cars and the time money and attention they get, so I can't
> complain too much.
>
> Greg Lemon
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